Dodie Smith Quotes
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Dodie Smith
Quotes to Explore
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
Octavio Paz
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
Samantha Shannon
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
Tanith Lee
The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
Karen Maitland
She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.
Nalo Hopkinson
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.
Lionel Shriver
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Marcello Mastroianni
I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
Jack Reynor
Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.
Matt Haig
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Dodie Smith
